Chaotic history

From local estates to the school gates, scaremongering about asylum seekers has caused a dangerous rise in far-right sentiment

Women hurled rotten vegetables and the contents of chamber pots from upstairs windows. Paving stones were prised loose to block the roads, while an overturned builder’s lorry became a barricade. Child

Mass arrests in London Controversy of the week ...

A ‘broken’ asylum system and a growing anti-immigration backlash has been the defining hot topic of the summer and an ongoing headache for the government while MPs have been on recess. Immigration and

Cuffed, kicked, and camera in hand — David Hoffman’s new book Protest! is the result of 40 years documenting the fight for rights and the force against it. Peter Dench finds out more

The year 1841 was an important one for family historians. It was the year of the first full UK census; at least it was the first time that the UK census had recorded details of named individuals, but